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A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.

Any plant of the order Cruciferæ.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.

ss for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.

A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

ssume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

copic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal.

same number. See Cube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake- robin.

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. SeeColocynth. -- Cucumber beetle. (…

A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans). [Obs.] A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands. Walton.

in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.